Sep 20, 2012

“From any point of view, whether archaeological, anthropological, linguistic or epistemological, there is no more need for the Indo-Europeans to “arrive” from somewhere, than there is for Uralic people, or for any other people in the world”

it is impossible to correlate Arian loanwords with Proto-Finnic-Permic; Baltic ones with Finnic and Lappish; Germanic with Finnic; and Scandinavian with Finnish, as all specialists in Uralic languages do, without assuming a higher or equal degree of differentiation of IE, compared to that of Uralic. Another contradiction that the NDT cannot solve is the rich record of loanwords from IE languages that Uralic languages show specifically for farming terminology.

Before jumping on any desired interpretation, one should first consider the numerical cause for having greatly differing matching coefficients. In the European mtDNA pool, one HVS-I haplotype is absolutely predominant, viz. the Cambridge reference sequence (CRS), which accounts for 20 per cent and more of the regional mtDNA pools in western Europe. The matching between such pools is thus overwhelmed by shared CRS haplotypes, which essentially determine the matching coefficient.

Barbujani, G.A. & A. Pilastro, 1993. Genetic evidence on origin and dispersal of human populations speaking languages of the Nostratic macrofamily. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA 90, 4670–73.

Kallio, P., 2000. Posti’s superstrate theory at the threshold of the new millenium, in Facing Finnic. Some Challenges to Historical and Contact Linguistics, ed. J. Laakso. Helsinki: The Finno-Ugrian Society, 80–99.